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    Ceratittis capitata larvae as an alternative food source for Macrolophus caliginosus

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    The suitability of mature larvae of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, as an alternative food source for the predatory bug Macrolophus caliginosus, was evaluated in comparison with other standard preys. Our experiment results show that this fictitious prey is accepted by all stages of the mirid bug, although specimens reared on fruit fly larvae are not as performing as those reared either on T. vaporariorum immatures or E. kuehniella eggs. Nevertheless the use of this prey could be envisaged for mass rearing purposes in reason of its low cost

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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